{"id":5336,"date":"2017-08-17T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/17\/abstain-the-night-before-feel-better-the-morning-after\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T10:46:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:46:37","slug":"abstain-the-night-before-feel-better-the-morning-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/17\/abstain-the-night-before-feel-better-the-morning-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstain the Night Before, Feel Better the Morning After"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you regret in the morning the spare supper of the night before or the foregoing of the useless dessert?  Do you feel bad that you now feel good and are not hung over?  You missed the party and with it the  ambiguity and unseriousness and dissipation of idle talk.  Are you now troubled by your spiritual continence?<\/span><\/p>\n

As for idle talk, here is something good from  Franz Kafka: The Diaries 1910-1923<\/strong>, ed. Max Brod, Schocken 1948, p. 199:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the next room my mother is entertaining the L. couple. They are talking about vermin and corns. (Mrs. L. has six corns on each toe.) It is easy to see that there is no real progress made in conversations of this sort. It is information that will be forgotten again by both and that even now proceeds along in self-forgetfulness without any sense of responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Kafka\"<\/a>I have read this passage many times, and what delights me each time is the droll understatement of it: "there is no real progress made in conversations of this sort." No indeed. There is no progress because the conversations are not seriously about anything worth talking about. There is no Verantwortlichkeit<\/em> (responsibility): the talk does not answer (antworten<\/em>) to anything important in the world or anything real in the interlocutors. It is jaw-flapping for its own sake, mere linguistic behavior which, if it conveys anything, conveys: \u2018I like you, you like me, and everything\u2019s fine.\u2019  An expression of boredom, it does little to alleviate it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The interlocutors float along in the inauthenticity (Uneigentlichkeit<\/em>) of what Heidegger calls das Man<\/em>, the \u2018they self.\u2019 Compare Heidegger\u2019s analysis of idle talk (Gerede<\/em>) in Sein und Zeit<\/strong> (1927), sec. 35.<\/span><\/p>\n

Am I suggesting that one should absolutely avoid idle talk?  That would be to take things to an unnecessary and perhaps imprudent extreme.  It is prudent to get yourself perceived as a regular guy — especially if you are an 'irregular guy.'<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you regret in the morning the spare supper of the night before or the foregoing of the useless dessert?  Do you feel bad that you now feel good and are not hung over?  You missed the party and with it the  ambiguity and unseriousness and dissipation of idle talk.  Are you now troubled by … Continue reading “Abstain the Night Before, Feel Better the Morning After”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}